Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-09

The express train that left Boston
at 7 o'clock on the night of the 4th
inst. met with terrible accident near
Woodstock, on the Central Vermont
Railroad, at about 2:3O in the morn
ing. The train started from Concord,
N. H., on time, but was detained at
White River Junction, so it was
about an hour and half
late when it left there. It con-
sisted OF g. locomotive, baggage car,
postal car, two passenger coaches and
two sleeping cars, and was running at
| the usual rate OF speed. When about
| 200 yards south of the end of the
deck bridge, near the old Windsor
station, broken rail was struck.
The locomotive, baggage car and
postal car broke away from the rest
of the train, passing over the bridge
| in safety. The rest of the train was
thrown from the rails and continued
on the roadbed until it came near the
end of the bridge, but there it ran over
the Gbutment and all of the cars fell
into the White River, some so feet be-
low. The gorge at this point is fright.
ful, and when the cars went down
! there was terrible crash.
AS soon as possible the detached
part of the train was stopped ana ran
back to the scene of the disaster. The
screams of the injured were heartrend-
ing. Assistance also came from the
people living in the vicinity and every
thing was done to rescue and relieve
the injured. Soon after help arrived
it was discovered that fire had start
ed in the first passenger coach and
soon the entire train was ablaZe, thus
adding new horror to the already
frightful catastrophe. Those present
were powerless to stop the fire and
devoted themselves entirely to at
tempting to rescue those imprisoned
in the wreck.
The rescuers met another and an
unexpected obstacle in the cheat, which
had become so intense that they were
Obliged to relinquish their Efforts to
save the sufferers, and were compelled
to retreat to place OF safety
for themselves, and to become
unwilling and = terror-stricken wit
nesses Of the awful holocaust. In
addition to those ard to add to the
terrors and suffering of the passengers,
the weather was intensely cold, and
the heroic rescuers were hipdered there
by in their work. No water could be
obtained with which to check or ex-
tinguish the flames. The ice was sew
eral inches thick on theriver and there
were no appliances st hand to raise it..
When the relief train from White
D;rar oho1 ho no
progress of the flames had been so
rapid that the bridge and four cars
had been practically destroyed. A
few burning timbers were seen and
the iron work of the bridge was
scattered over tho ice. The only
house near the scene was that Of
Thomas Pingree, q farmer, and had it
not been for his hospitable roof some
of the injured would doubtless have
persisted from exposure. The baggage
and mail cars afforded accommodate
tions for number of the wounded.
The accident is the most terrible of
any that ever occurred in Northern
New England.
OF those killed, the following have been
identified. Ed. F. Dillon, Dartmouth; s. S.
Westcott, Burlington, and his little son
Frank L. Wesson, Springfield, Mass; D.
Magnet, Quebec; Edward Banks, brake
man, of Lebanon n. H.; NJ. r. Burgess,
Pullman car conductor; Miss Nancy Dun
bar, Of Porter's Station, Somerville; Mason
Mills, of Iroquois. Ont, identified by watch
and ring; Conductor s. c. Sturtevant; John
Madden, colored, porter of the Pullman
- Bouanger, OF Holyoke, u young girl.
A. J. Hammer, OF Boston, porter of Pull
man tar st. Albans;" unknown porter OF
the Pullman car "Puritan;" Edgar Wilder,
OF Dayto O.. identified by his brother to-
day; Charles W. Sanford, OF Lowell (prob-
ably; Mrs. Devineau, OF Winooski, identi-
fed, to. day, by her brother.
The injured: Mrs. John Graham. Bed
ford, Mass, leg and arm broken and in
ternal injuries; William Devine. Winooski,
slight bruise OF the forehead and side; 81. J.
Wilcox, Bangor, N. Y, severe injury to
base of the skull-probably fractured; j.
G. Hutchins, Montgomery Center. Vt, in
jured in back; Howard F. Smith, Glou-
Henry Mott, Aiiburgh, VI, seriously in
jurea in the chest and hip; James Kiley,
Burke, N. Y, arm broken and one foot
from; Miss Emily Lowell, Montreal,
slightly iniured Polly Abel, Chicope Mass,
hip badly injured; Charles A. Hubbard,
Cambridge Mass, slight injuries about the
lace; Andrew wheeler, E1UchDurg, bruised
and burned about the head and face; Jo-
seph Meignet, Schanigan, Que, injured
about the head and face; Annie Murphy
Boston, seriously and perhaps fatally
hurt Joseph Gennett, Scio, N. Y, badly
hurtabout head and arms; Moses Poul
lier. Quebec, skull fractured; Horace Ju
neau East Pepperel, slightly hurt
O. Boiseret, Algelique, Que, internal in
juries; j. B, Gushing, Middleboro, cut in the
leg and back; Mrs. W. S. Dryden, Montreal
injured in the back; Henry W. Tewksbury
West Randolph, VT, leg and arm broken
and otherwise seriously hurt; Miss P. III
Follett, Sharon, VT, slightly injured; L
Condrement, New York hurt in back and
side; Frank Pratt, secretary of Y. M. G.
A., Springfield, Mass. right loot injured;
Mitchell Larcillide. Lawrence, Mass, slight
scalp wound; BENZ. Belanger (child)
Holyoke, Mass, slightly injured in the side
Joseph E. JACQUES, Fitchburg, Mass.
one eye, nose and chin injured; Margaret
Walsh, Greenfield, Mass, scalp wound and
confusion of right arm and abdomen
j. W. Tuttle, Tunbridge, VT, forehead, cal
and back OF head slightly injured; August
Lebopt, Lynn, Mass, severe lacerated
wound on forehead and body and limbs